VOL. XLIV

No. 11

12-March-2001

FINANCIAL RATINGS

Moodys Adds Minus Modifiers To FSR Ratings To Enhance Risk Differentials

US ratings agency Moodys Investors Service announced on 28 February that it had added modifiers to its Bank Financial Strength Ratings (BFSRs) to provide more finely tuned differentiation amongst financial institutions. The agency explained that the new rating scale will increase the number of risk categories to 13 from nine by introducing a minus () to ratings above the E...